Kevin Wells is a former Major League Baseball writer, Catholic speaker, and author of Priest and Beggar: The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz (Ignatius Press). His best-selling book The Priests We Need to Save the Church was published by Sophia Institute Press in 2019.
Someone dear to me left the Catholic faith. With little effort, I can name a few hundred friends, former classmates, and acquaintances who’ve abandoned the faith.
This person, though, is dear to me.
Everyone reading this knows of one who’s left Catholicism. Many of this set, like me, mourn a dear one who’s fallen away. It’s like a death. Why is our grief immense? Why do we shed St. Monica-sized tears for these poor lost ones? Answers are multitudinous; but here are a few. …
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